Query to search all packages for table and/or column

Question

Is there a query I can run to search all packages to see if a particular table and/or column is used in the package? There are too many packages to open each one and do a fi

Answer 1

you can use the views *_DEPENDENCIES, for example:

SELECT owner, NAME
  FROM dba_dependencies
 WHERE referenced_owner = :table_owner
   AND referenced_name = :table_name
   AND TYPE IN ('PACKAGE', 'PACKAGE BODY')